Eagle And the Virgin Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940

Summary: "Steeped in a generation of new cultural and transnational analysis of state formation and popular expression,The Eagle and the Virginraises the bar for studies of nation building and cultural politics in postrevolutionary Mexico. Particularly impressive is the volume's sensitive analysis of contests over religious culture and symbols, its gendered understanding of state formation, and its handsomely illustrated trea...tment of the development of a Mexican revolutionary aesthetic."-Gilbert M. Joseph, coeditor ofThe Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics [read more]